Description:

A list of mods I compiled together that make my ideal way to play minecraft. Aims to enhance the experience by improving the game's performance, adding to the gameplay with quality-of-life changes and new visuals to make the game more digestible and feel more modern while maintaining the vanilla experience mostly intact.

Performance:

These are mods intended to improve the games performance.

• Sodium: A modern rendering engine for Minecraft which greatly improves performance.
• Lithium: No-compromises game logic/server optimization mod.
• Sodium Extra: A Sodium addon that adds features that shouldn't be in Sodium.
• Indium: Sodium addon providing support for the Fabric Rendering API, based on Indigo.
• Entity Culling: Using async path-tracing to hide Block-/Entities that are not visible.
• More Culling: A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance.
• FerriteCore: Memory usage optimizations.
• Memory Leak Fix: A mod that fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server.
• ImmediatelyFast: Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft.
• Let Me Despawn: Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules. Say bye to pesky unintentional persistent mobs.

Quality-of-Life:

These are mods that not only add extra information and visual feedback to your actions, but also some gameplay tweaks to make the experience more convenient and feel more modern.

• Just Enough Items: JEI - View Items and Recipes.
• Mod Menu: Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
• Mouse Tweaks: Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
• Eating Animation: A mod that adds sprite animations for edible and drinkable items.
• AppleSkin: Food/hunger-related HUD improvements.
• Enchantment Descriptions: Provides a way to get enchantment descriptions from enchanted books.
• Advancement Plaques: Replace those boring advancement popups with something flashier.
• Legendary Tooltips: Give your rare items a fancier tooltip! Also adds additional tooltip configuration options.
• Fresh Animations: Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
• Better Advancements: Better Advancements tries to improve the UI and UX for the advancements system in minecraft 1.12+ in a modded environment.
• Dynamic Crosshair: A mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context.
• Item Highlighter: Highlights newly picked-up items. Simple and convenient.
• Pick Up Notifier: Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
• Tiny Item Animations: Adds little animations when you pick up or insert items with your mouse.
• Leaves Be Gone: Quick leaf decay from cutting down trees. Built for fast performance and mod compat!
• Traveler's Titles: Epic, RPG-like titles when entering biomes & dimensions!
• Minecart Turning: MC-201 fix; player camera turns with minecart (and other uncontrolled entities).
• Sound Physics Remastered: A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
• LambDynamicLights: A dynamic lights mod for Fabric.

Gameplay additions:

These are mods that change or make additions to gameplay, such as new features and tweaks.

• Xaero's Minimap: Displays a map of the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which help you find the locations you've marked.
• Keep Some Inventory: Don't lose equipment but drop resources when dying.
• Nyf's Spiders 2.0: Vanilla spiders are not yet creepy enough for you? You wish spiders would actually climb properly?! Spiders 2.0 enables regular spiders and cave spiders to walk along walls and ceilings and it also improves their AI such that they can find their way around almost any obstacle.

Visuals:

Mods that directly change the graphics and visuals of the game.

• Bare Bones: Minecraft with the style of the trailers.
• Complementary Shaders - Reimagined: Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
• Continuity: A Fabric mod that allows for efficient connected textures.
• Barebones Better Leaves: Creates holes on leaves in a style that fits the barebones resourcepack.
• Colourful containers GUI: A container GUI replacement mod that hopes to match the menu to every one of Minecraft's colourful interactable blocks.

Credits:

I did not make the mods themselves but simply put them all together in a modpack, all the credits go to the respective creators.
The mod descriptions are taken from the pages of the respective mods.